Good Care, Painful Choices: Medical Ethics for Ordinary People
Discusses such ethical dilemmas as organ transplants, HIV/AIDS, euthanasia, abortion, handicapped newborns, living wills, and assisted suicide
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The media abound with stories of medical ethics dilemmas - test tube babies, surrogate mothers, problem pregnancies, genetic engineering, organ transplants, AIDS, living wills, deathbed decisions, and physician assisted suicide. This book is truly a reader-friendly text, an introduction to these key medical moral issues, written for ordinary people asking real-life questions. Students of all ages, adult discussion groups, pastoral ministers, health care professionals, and the general public will find Richard Devine to be a master teacher, an accessible guide and mentor through the maze of today's medical ethics questions.Medical, legal, socio-cultural, theological, and ethical information is presented to assist adult learners in making good moral decisions. Decidedly Christian, with special emphasis on the Roman Catholic tradition, this book is designed for Catholics, for all Christians, and for anyone interested in a careful overview of contemporary medical ethics.
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